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Saturday, 20 August 2016

Ticks All The Right Boxes...

It's Amazon Pilot Season again, when users of its streaming service get to vote for which of a selection of pilot episodes are picked up for a full season.

And among this year's choices is a wonderful reboot of Ben Edlund's The Tick, with comedy legend Peter Serafinowicz as the titular gormless superhero.

Written by Edlund, the character's comic book creator, and directed by Wally Pfister, cinematographer on such superhero movies as The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Returns as well as Inception, this half-hour pilot is fantastic and seriously deserves to be picked up.

In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a super villain. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero.

Griffin Newman is suitably downtrodden as potentially delusional Arthur Everest, the accountant, who finds himself being co-opted by The Tick as his sidekick.